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A PHYSICIST SPENT A YEAR OF HIS LIFE AND ~500 PAGES OF HAND CALCULATIONS FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY IN HIS PHD THESIS, BUT OPUS 5.5 DID IT IN 10 HOURS, INCLUDING THE ARTICLE AND GITHUB REPO. AND IT EVEN FOUND THE ERRORS. WHAT WILL "LABOR" MEAN IN ACADEMIA FROM NOW ON?
"PhD speedrun any% world record: 10 hours vs 1 year of human suffering."
Explain Like I'm Normal
A viral claim suggests that Anthropic's unreleased Opus 5.5 model replicated a year's worth of manual quantum gravity calculations and coding in under a day. While the source is a community post, it highlights the looming crisis in academia where LLMs can identify errors in complex theoretical physics faster than peer reviewers. This signals a shift from 'doing the math' to 'verifying the machine.'
ALSO TODAY
Viggle unveils JST-2, an AI that generates entire 3D worlds in seconds, expands them in real time, and creates animated characters. Unlike traditional AI video generators, it builds environments directly in 3D with physics built in.
Forget video loops; we’re just speed-running the simulation now.
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
DeepSeek is basically the Dollar Shave Club of AGI at this point.
AI BREAKTHROUGHS
See all →Terminal Bench v4 vs Frontier Code v1.1?
New meta unlocked: scoring an A+ in agentic coding while failing the terminal vibe check.
MS-Eval: Benchmarking Sub-Agent Delegation and Orchestration in MCP-Intensive Working Scenarios
Your AI agent needs a middle manager now: benchmarking the new delegation meta.
Evo-B&B: Behavior-Aware LLM-Guided Joint Evolution of Branching and Node Selection Policies for MILP
LLMs are now evolving their own math solvers because humans are too slow at branching.
AI DRAMA
See all →WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
Meta’s vibes-based safety: just tell the bot to ignore the government.
Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
Infinite money glitch (for the hackers) via your stolen Claude API keys.
ICLR Desk Rejected with no apparent reason [D]
POV: You spent months on a paper just to get ghosted by an automated rejection email.
WEIRD TOOLS
See all →Old server machine with 2x 3060 12GB for MoE models, anything I’m missing?
Old workstation + used 3060s = the poor man's AGI rig.
Deepseek released DeepInfer - Open Source high-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models!
DeepSeek just dropped their secret sauce in a bucket and handed us the spoon.
HermesConsole: A demo showing off VoiceManager, my low latency streaming STT / TTS server. MIT, client docs, and python client.
Local Her is here and it sounds like Star Trek without the cloud latency tax.
STARTUP GRAVEYARD
See all →Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
From waifus to Mickey: Disney just bought the world's largest digital dollhouse.
Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch
Sega finds out 'just AI-enhance it' isn't a valid strategy for strategy games.
Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data?
Your AI boyfriend is filing for Chapter 11 and the government wants your chat logs.
EXPLAIN LIKE I'M NORMAL
See all →Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Local politician warns of the algorithm, requests New Yorkers to 'rage against the machine.'
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
Your favorite model's benchmark scores are probably a vibe, not a fact.
The fossil fuel comeback is here
AGI's thirst for power is literally resurrecting the carbon age.
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